This post originally appeared on Erica Kennedy's Open Salon blog.
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So last week I read this widely reblogged USA Today article in which Gabourey Sidibe's stylist, Linda Medvene (who?), proclaimed that "everyone" wanted to dress Gabby for the Oscars and then went on to name some lesser known designers like Kevan Hall.
Now if you had read this on USA Today's site and not on another blog that was linking to it, you would have noted, as I did, that they felt the need to put "full-sized" in quotes -- "Designers vie to dress 'full-sized' Gabourey Sidibe" -- like it's such a derogatory thing to say about a woman that they needed to soften the blow with ... well, kinda.
She IS full-sized, mofos. She's not ashamed of it.
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